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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

trade and financial power and, at the end, powerfully curses the
Jews: "All those who live under the law of Moses are clothed as
with a cloak by baseness; the baseness enters their bones and clothes
as water and oil flow in the human body. The Jews are cursed in
city and country at the beginning and end of their life; the herds of
the Jews are cursed, the meat that they eat, their vine, their businesses
and their shops".
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I add these words because a historian of the 19 century
uses them to proclaim sanctimoniously: "Such is the moderation of
one of the most learned bishops of his century. And then one dares
to reproach some rabbis for having spoken badly of the
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Christians".
One does not know what reader Bedarride imagines, for
the hatred of Christ and Christians, this "most nationalistic trait in
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antiquity", was at that time already 800 years old, it was
unequivocally laid down in the holy scriptures of the rabbis, it was
already preached for centuries from the pulpit and expressed in a
specific curse formula, it was expressed in the talk about the
"Nazarenes", in the Jewish moral laws, etc.
To be sure, Bedarride handles the affair of Bishop Agobert
lightly, finds the privileges of the "Jews who are in every respect
superior" to the Christians entirely in order, and shows surprise that
the bishop of Lyons is of another opinion. The disarming and also
naive insolence of the Jew comes to the fore even here. That one
was instructed to a certain degree even in the 9 lh century on the
Jewish secrets is shown by a letter of the bishop of Lyons named
after the death of Agobert, in which he takes up the affair once
again. In this letter he requests the Archbishop of Rheims to go to
the court in order to place the Jews like all the other citizens under
the same state law, the more so since they are foreigners and have
treated the Christians with contempt, called the apostles apostates,
made a mockery ofthe gospel through distortion, called the Christian
cult the worship of Baal and even Christ himself a prostitute's son,
born of Mary's adultery with a gentile.

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Bedarride, Les Juifs en France, Paris, 1861, p. 462.
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Laible, op.cit., p. 14.
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